State Islamophobia operates first through policing Muslim women’s bodies.

Evidence

Like its epistemological mother, Islamophobia is strategic with its deployment of “imperial feminism,” and as governments across the globe spearhead Islamophobic crusades in the form of hijab bans and the regulation of Muslim women’s bodies, disregarding Islamophobia’s gendered dimensions would veil its most menacing tentacles. … Following the intellectual direction of pioneering Muslim feminists like Fatema Mernissi, The New Crusades seeks to unveil how societal and state-sponsored Islamophobia is often first concerned with policing female bodies: “The so-called modesty of [Muslim] women is in fact a war tactic.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 44

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The gendered-Islamophobia thesis builds a mechanism the reader can weigh against US-focused treatments like Iftikhar’s.
• DEFINE: Introduces ‘imperial feminism’ and ‘gendered Islamophobia’ as named concepts.

Related

• Policing Muslim women’s bodies is the primary target of Islamophobia (similarity 0.91)
• Muslim women’s bodies are the first targets of state Islamophobia (similarity 0.90)
• Muslim women’s bodies are the first sites of state Islamophobic regulation (similarity 0.88)
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. (similarity 0.86)
• Gendered Islamophobia assigns opposite tropes to Muslim women and men (similarity 0.85)
• Gendered Islamophobia casts Muslim women as victims needing state rescue (similarity 0.85)
• French state Islamophobia targets Muslim women while citing their liberation from Muslim men (similarity 0.85)
• Gendered Islamophobia names discrimination targeting Muslim women (similarity 0.84)
• Gendered Islamophobia casts Muslim men as terrorists and women as victims needing saving (similarity 0.84)
• France’s Hijab Ban inaugurated gendered Islamophobia that polices Muslim women’s bodies (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia operates differently depending on gender and national context (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim women’s bodies are the first site of state policing in Islamophobic societies (similarity 0.80)
• Terrorist racialization is gendered, targeting men differently than women (similarity 0.80)
• France’s hijab policing became a template copied across continents (similarity 0.80)
• French veil laws institutionalize entwined stereotypes of weak women and violent men (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Muslim women’s bodies are the first site of state policing in Islamophobic societies #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 713
• France’s Hijab Ban inaugurated gendered Islamophobia that polices Muslim women’s bodies #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 702
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 804